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Food Crises Push Governments to Empower Women Farmers
Aug 19, 2010 (Change.org)

Call it a silver-lining: Skyrocketing food costs and hunger crises have forced policymakers and aid groups to take a hint. To end hunger and build truly sustainable food systems, they're embracing the global community most responsible for food: women.

ActionAid First to Reach Pakistani Flood Victims in Kot Addu
Aug 13, 2010

Heavy rains are hampering the rescue operation in Pakistan where ActionAid partners have been evacuating people caught up in the worst floods in 80 years.

A New Beginning for Haitians
Aug 13, 2010 (International Herald Tribune)

Haiti now has the opportunity to build foundations for a new society based on human rights, equitable justice and a fairer distribution of wealth.

Newsletters
Aug 9, 2010

Tim Searchinger: Biofuels and World Hunger
Jul 30, 2010

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Jun 25, 2010 (Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge)

G8 Must Not Count Patrol Ships and Flu Control as Aid to Fight Hunger Warns ActionAid
Jun 18, 2010 (ActionAid)

ActionAid released its research just one week before the G8 summit in Canada, where world leaders are expected to report back on last year’s $20 billion pledge to tackle the global food crisis.

Interview with Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of ActionAid International (CSPO Exemplar)
May 20, 2010 (The Rightful Place of Science)

Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of ActionAid International, recent interview with Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University (CSPO).

Voices for Haiti- Concert at Lawton, Oklahoma
Apr 28, 2010 (The Lawton Constitution)

Lawtonians with ties to the quake-ravaged nation plan a concert fundraiser on Saturday (May 1st, 2010) at Great Plains Coliseum, OK.

Climate Funds for Poor Nations Still Unresolved After U.S.-Led Meeting
Apr 22, 2010 (Solve Climate)

A $30 billion pledge by wealthy nations to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, but there was scant new progress to report.

Investing in women farmers key to halving hunger
Apr 21, 2010

Investing in women smallholder farmers is the key to halving hunger and results in twice as much growth as investment in any other sector, a new ActionAid report reveals, as the Senate Foreign Relations committee meets Thursday to consider President Obama’s new global food security initiative.

Women Farmers Can Play Big Role in Reducing World Hunger, says New Report
Apr 21, 2010 (Voice of America)

Women farmers hold the “key” to sharply reducing world hunger, according to a new report from ActionAid.

HAITI-US: Washington Aid Policy May Be Shifting
Apr 19, 2010 (IRIN News)

Former US President Bill Clinton, now a UN Special Envoy to Haiti, has pledged to foster the country's self-sufficiency after expressing regret for implementing policies during his administration that damaged its agricultural capacity and ability to feed itself.

Haitian government risks ignoring earthquake survivors, ActionAid says
Apr 9, 2010

Three months on from the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the government is at risk of ignoring survivors in its plans to re-house hundreds of thousands of people, ActionAid said today.

Of Biofuels, Land Grabs and Food Prices
Apr 6, 2010 (The New York Times)

ActionAid, an antipoverty group, has stepped up a campaign against European Union policies aimed at encouraging consumers to use fuels grown from crops to power their cars.

Haitians Excluded from Decisions on Rebuilding after Earthquake
Mar 31, 2010

Ordinary Haitians are being excluded from decisions about how best to rebuild their country after January’s devastating earthquake, ActionAid said ahead of an international donors meeting in New York today (Wednesday).

With Cheap Food Imports, Haiti Can't Feed Itself
Mar 30, 2010 (The Huffington Post)

The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.

IMF Proposes 100-Billion-Dollar Climate Fund
Mar 26, 2010 (IPS Inter Press Service News Agency)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the first details of a proposed financing framework, dubbed the 'Green Fund', intended to mobilise 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to help developing countries cope with the consequences of climate change and mitigate further emissions.

Contributions to UU Haiti fund near $1 million
Feb 16, 2010 (UU World Magazine)

Unitarian Universalists have contributed almost $1 million to a relief fund created by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Association to help victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.